Rich Hutnik wrote on Sat, May 10, 2008 07:32 PM UTC:
Ok, for those who think Simplified Chess takes too much out, consider Skirmish56 Chess:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSskirmish56ches
This is normal chess, outside of the pawns moving only one space forward (no initial double move). Checkmate, regular pawn promotion, and castling are back in. Maybe this is what Skirmish Chess actually needed to greater interest.